Mother of a Family. Self-Help Stories for Single-Parent Families (Spanish Edition)

Being a single mother is not the same as being a half-mother, even if the world sometimes makes you feel that way. I wrote "Madre de Familia" (Mother of a Family) thinking of all the women who carry an entire household on their own shoulders, and who need, in addition to strength, companionship in the form of words that understand exactly what they are going through.

This book is not a technical parenting guide or a manual with rigid rules: it is an honest companion for solo motherhood, addressing both the practical daily challenges — time management, family finances, work-life balance — and the emotional challenges that are rarely spoken aloud: the guilt of not being able to do everything, the unseen exhaustion, and also the strength and silent pride of raising an entire family on your own.

Throughout its pages, you will find reflections and practical tools to strengthen your self-esteem as a mother, to set healthy boundaries without feeling guilty about it, to ask for help when you need it without it feeling like a personal failure or defeat, and to build a real support network around you, because raising children alone should not mean being completely alone.

I wrote this book thinking of you if you have become solely responsible for your household, whether by choice, separation, or life circumstances, if you feel you are carrying more than humanly possible without help, or if you simply need to read, at some point in the day, something that reminds you that what you do every day for your children, even if no one tells you, is extraordinary.

If you read this book, you will find validation for what you feel without needing to justify it, concrete tools to better organize your daily life without exhausting yourself in the attempt, and above all, the certainty that you are not failing by feeling tired: you are raising an entire family alone, maintaining a home, finances, and schedules that in other homes are shared by two people, and that, although it sometimes feels invisible, is one of the most demanding jobs there is.

I also dedicate an entire chapter to guilt, that ever-present feeling in single motherhood: the guilt of working and not being at home, the guilt of being at home and not progressing professionally, the guilt of needing a moment for yourself. I try to dismantle, one by one, the reasons why this guilt appears so frequently, and I offer concrete ways to live with it without letting it direct your daily decisions.

I also speak openly about the importance of building a support community, whether family, friends, other mothers in your same situation, or resources in your immediate environment, because one of the most damaging myths about solo motherhood is that you have to prove you can do it all without anyone's help. Asking for help doesn't make you a worse mother: it makes you a mother who understands her own limits and respects them.

I am Kristina Farkas, and I wrote this book after hearing, over and over again, the same silent concerns from mothers who carry the weight of their homes alone: the feeling of not being enough, mixed with a strength that they themselves don't fully recognize. It is available in a 165-page print edition and as an ebook with the same content, designed to be read in those brief moments that any busy mother snatches between household chores, work shifts, and those minutes just before falling asleep when finally everything is silent.

If you are looking for an emotional support book for single mothers, a self-help guide for solo parenting, or simply something that makes you feel understood on the toughest days of motherhood, this is exactly the kind of book you are looking for: intimate, honest, without judgment or empty advice, and written with absolute respect for what it means to raise an entire family on your own, day after day.

This book pairs especially well with my Affirm Your Mind daily affirmation books, ideal for reading a page each morning before the frantic pace of the day begins, reinforcing your self-esteem and your connection with yourself in the small gaps of time you manage to snatch from your daily life, those minutes that are sometimes the only thing you have just for yourself.

An aspect that I address with special care in the book is the relationship between the mother and her own children in a single-parent household: how to talk to them honestly, adapted to their age, about the family situation, how to avoid making them confidantes of your own adult worries while still sharing a close and sincere relationship with them, and how to build stable routines that give them security even if the family structure is different from what they see in other homes around them.

I don't write from distant theory, but from close observation of real stories of women who, day after day, sustain their homes with a strength that is rarely publicly recognized. My intention with this book is not to tell you how you should feel, but to accompany you in what you already feel, putting into words that mix of exhaustion, pride, guilt, and fierce love that defines, for many women, solo motherhood.

Bookstore/Stationery Category: Self-Help and Personal Development — Motherhood and Family.